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NGB73XXX: New of 2024. Botryoidal groups of Plumbogummite in matrix, forming layers with colorations ranging from intense and uniform sky blue to electric blue.
From an old mine in Garlitos, Badajoz, this phosphate can be considered of the best known quality for the species in the Iberian Peninsula.
It has been published as a novelty at the 2024 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 11-12/2024 page 71 and in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals‘ number 3, vol. 100 page 268, year 2025.
Furthermore, this specimen has been mentioned in thread FMF - MineralExpo Barcelona-Sants 2024 (edición octubre) - Minerales Invisibles
Las Minillas is an area within the Variscan basement of NE Badajoz, dominated by metamorphic rocks and granitoids (including the Garlitos Granodiorite). Pb mineralization is linked to fractures and small hydrothermal veins, later overprinted by a well-developed supergene oxidation zone, where secondary phosphates such as Plumbogummite may form.
La Minita Mine, Las Minillas area, Granja de Torrehermosa, Comarca de Llerena, Badajoz, Extremadura Spain
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.0 cm = 2.17” × 1.57”
Photo: Pere Alonso
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